Date: Mon, 8 Jan 1996 17:59:05 -0500 (EST)
From: Karen L Houle <khoule-AT-uoguelph.ca>
Subject: Re: fall/flow



aden/  

this "openness":     is it not precisely the was called 
"effortlessness"?  

and what is intensified is the attentiveness of the 
skin, of the semicircular canals, of the smell of the corner, the angles 
of light, the pinchednerves of the contacting back...attentions are 
multiplied and redirected "away" (?) from the central dispatch of what? 
what some call mind.

: move there now. ok. move that way now. ok. one two three. rep.

i was thinking about douglas' distaste for mikhail's 
strenous executions and how, although one could say of these moves that 
he had succeeded in mastering them, of making them actually effortless or 
appear effortless, he had done this, had he not (fuck i don't know i 
can't pull off a pirouette, but let's imagine what he did was...) amplify 
insistenly on one direction of attentiveness: his command of his legs move 
there now. ok. again. again. (rep). it is effortless but not openness.

'nother karen 

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